Paper-roll storage and delivery gallery



, R. a. McCORMICK.

PAPER ROLL STORAGE AND DELIVERY GALLERY.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT.29, I919;

Patented July 5,1921.

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PAPER ROLL STORAGE AND DELIVERY GALLERY.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT-29, I919- Patented July 5, 1921.

2 SHEEIS-SHEET 2- UNITED STATES.

ROBERT It. MCGQRMIGK,

01E CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

PAPER-ROLL STORAGE AND DELIVERY GALLERY.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT R. McCon- MICK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Paper-Roll Storage and Delivery Galleries, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to galleries by means of which heavy rolls of paper, such as are used for printing newspapers, can be deposited and stored and conveyed from the outside of a building to the feed end of a printingpress within the same without manual effort, whenever desired.

Heretofore rolls of paper of this kind have been rolled from heavy wagons or motor trucks onto hand trucks and carried. into the building where they were to be used, or deposited onto pavement elevators and lowered into the basement of the building where they were to be used and from thence conveyed by hand trucks to the printing-press situated in the basement.

The object of my invention is to deposit these heavy rolls of paper in the gallery and let them drift within convenient reach of the press, quickly and without the aid of more manual effort than is required to unload them from the conveyance, that brought them tothe building. This I accomplish by means hereinafter fully described and as particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a horizontal sectional View of my improved, gallery taken on a dotted line 11, Fig. 2.

Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same and its environs taken on dotted line 2-2, Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section of said gallery taken on dotted line 33, Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is an elevation of the inner end of said gallery.

Fig. 5 is a. horizontal section of the broken away discharge end of said gallery drawn to a large scale.

In Fig. 1 of the drawings, 5 represents the front wall of a building; 6 the flooring of the first floor thereof and 7 a platform bu lt out in front of said wall. This platform is built over a forward extension of a basement and its height above the surface of the road bed corresponds, preferably, to that of the bottom of the truck or wagon 8; which latter is shown to be backed up to the for- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented. July 5, 1921 Application filed September 29, 1919. Serial No. 327,261.

ward wall, 9, of the platform that extends down to the floor of the basement.

The platform is provided with a longitudinally elongated opening or hatchway 12, that 1S, preferably, located next the outer wall, 9, and is closed by a suitable door 26. A gallery or alley 13, of a width slightly exceeding the length of the hatchway 12 is built from wall 9 to a point near the supply end of aprinting press. The end 27 of this gallery adjacent to said press is open for a certain distance above the floor of the basement to provide an exit, 15, for the rolls of paper R, as will hereinafter be more fully explained, and adoorway 16 is extended up from this exit opening 15, to permit the entrance of aperson into the gallery. The doorway 16, and exit opening are both closed by a door, 17, which is, preferably, constructed so as to roll up around a suitable shaft 19, and has its vertical edges, retained in suitable guideways 18.

The gallery, 13, is provided with several longitudinally extending runways, arranged one above the other. The drawings show but three runways, but it will, be obvious that one or more may be employed. The upper runway consists of two longitudinal corresponding shelves 21, 21, which are preferably made of flooring and project from the said side walls of the gallery toward each other in the same plane, and are sup. ported by brackets 22, projecting from. said side-walls at suitable points along their lengths or in any other manner. At one end these shelves, 21, are attached to wall 9and from thence they extend in a downwardly inclined direction toward. the opposite inner end of the gallery, but terminate a suitable distance therefrom. substantially as shown in the drawings. Betweenthe upper runway and the floor 25 of the gallery I provide an intermediate runway which, similar to the saidupper runway, consists of two longitudinal shelves, 23, 23, that are constructed in the same manner as shelves 21, and are supported in substantially the same way by brackets 24. These shelves are connected to the inner end of the gallery above exit opening 15, and extend in a downwardly inclined direction (just the opposite to the incline of the shelves 21), toward, but terminate before reaching wall 9. The floor 25, of the gallery inclines downward from wall 9 to the exit opening 15.

. 29, and 28.

In operation the rolls of paper areun loaded from the truck, one at a time, and dropped through the hatchway 12, into the gallery and fall onto the shelves 21, of the upper runway. They roll down shelves 21 toward the inner end of the gallery to and drop off of the inner lower ends of shelves 21, onto the upper end of shelves 23, and then roll down the incline of these last mentioned shelves toward the wall 9. Arriving at the outer ends of shelves 23, the rolls of paper drop off of the same onto the upper outer'end of the floor of'the gallery,- and then roll down its incline "to and are discharged onto the floor of the basement adjacent to the printing press. The discharge of the rolls of paper is controlled by the door 17, but other means may be employed for this purpose if desired. WVhen door 17 is closed the rolls accumulate on the run ways of the gallery and can be discharged therefrom, as needed, by manipulating said door. 5

The shelves of the runways are separated a sufficient distance to permit the passage of the body of a man. It is possible for the rolls of paper to become jammed in the runways and in this event, it might become necessary for a man to raise the door 17 and enter through the doorway at the inner end of the gallery to reach and overcome the difficulty mentioned or to repair the runways. 1 do not desire to be confined to the use of oneggallery, as it is obvious a battery of two or more could be employed as shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings. In this event the threegalleries A, B, and Care constructed similar to that illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, and 40f the drawings except that the intermediate and end galleries are separated by com mon partitions or walls instead of separate side walls.

At the highest end of the shelves of each runway and of the floor said shelves and floor are built up to provide easements 29, The rolls of paper fall upon these easements as they are dropped through the hatchway 12 and from the end of each runway, and the surfaces or tread of the easements upon which the rolls fall are given a concave curve and break the force of the fall of said rolls as well as give them an impetus that will insure their rolling on to their'ultimate destination, namely the exit opening 15.

What I claim as new is:

1. 'A building'having a basement extended out in front of one of the outer walls thereof, and a platform built out from said wall over the extended portion of said basement and having a hatchway therein, in combination with a gallery built from under said hatchway into said basement within said building and having afioor inclined from its end under said hatchway to its inner end, runways each consisting of two separate shelves arranged in the same horizontal plane and secured to and projecting from the side walls of the gallery, the uppermost of which extends from under the hatchway toward but terminates before it reaches the inner end of the gallery, an intermediate runway which extends from the inner end of the gallery toward but terminates before it reaches the outer end of said gallery, and means at the inner end of said incline to prevent the discharge of objects therefrom.

2. A building having a basement extended out in front of one of the outer walls thereof, and a platform built out from said wall over the extended portion of said basement and having a hatchway therein, in combination with a gallery built from under said hatchway into said basement within said building and having a floor inclined from its end under said hatchway to its inner end, runways each consisting of two separate shelves arranged in the same horizontal plane and secured to and projecting from said walls of the gallery, the uppermost of which extends and inclines downward from under the hatchway toward but terminates before it reaches the inner end of the gallery, an intermediate runway which extends and inclines downward from the inner end of the gallery toward but terminates before it reaches" the outer end of said gallery, and means at the inner end of said incline to prevent the discharge of objects therefrom.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand "this 15th day of September, 1919.

ROBERT R. McCORMICK.

' Witnesses: v

VVnYMoU'rH KIRKLAND, FRANK D. TI-IOMASON. 

